The historical roots of the civil law tradition: Roman law as it stood under the emperors, the Byzantine law that carried it forward in the East, the medieval revival of Roman law in the schools of Italy, and the shared European law, the ius commune, that grew out of that revival and underlies modern civil codes. A legal system belongs here when its cited article describes Roman, Byzantine or ius commune law, or civil law as a general family. It excludes the law of one modern country, which sits in the national or regional groups.
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Medieval Roman law (Wikipedia)
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Based on the ancient text of Roman law, Corpus iuris civilis, it added many new concepts, and formed the basis of the later civil law systems that prevail in the vast majority of countries.
Byzantine law (Wikipedia)
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Byzantine law was essentially a continuation of Roman law with increased Orthodox Christian and Hellenistic influence.
Civil law (legal system) (Wikipedia)
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Civil law is a legal system rooted in the Roman Empire and was comprehensively codified and disseminated starting in the 19th century, most notably with France's Napoleonic Code (1804) and Germany's Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (1900).
Germanic Law (Wikipedia)
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Germanic law is a scholarly term used to describe a series of commonalities between the various law codes (the Leges Barbarorum, 'laws of the barbarians', also called Leges) of the early Germanic peoples.
Jus commune (Wikipedia)
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Jus commune or ius commune is Latin for "common law" in certain jurisdictions. It is often used by civil law jurists to refer to those aspects of the civil law system's invariant legal principles, sometimes called "the law of the land" in English law.
Roman law (Wikipedia)
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Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law also denoted the legal system applied in most of Western Europe until the end of the 18th century.
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